Gangland Preview at GameSpot

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An account of several aspects of MediaMobsters' forthcoming role-playing and strategy hybrid

By IGN Staff

A preview of Gangland that was thrown up a couple of days ago offers impressions of a brace of levels from MediaMobsters' game, and makes the following comparison as concerns the character development aspect:

The role-playing portion of Gangland is somewhat reminiscent of The Sims; you can meet a girl, get married, and have children who grow up and succeed you as mob boss. While we weren't able to see this feature in action, it's clear that you'll have to do a fair amount of work in order to impress your potential bride. Women on the streets of Paradise City won't have anything to do with you until you move up in the world; you need to have a safe house, a fearsome reputation, and some money in your pocket, or else they'll blow you off. So, like in The Sims, you really have to work to build up your character before a relationship can blossom.

Slated to ship at the beginning of March via publisher Whiptail Interactive, Gangland casts the player as one of four brothers of a mafia family, with the aim being to create a criminal organization more powerful than any other operating in the game's urban milieu. - Annihilator

There were five brothers romano, angelo, sonny, chico and mario. as kids they were inseparable as they grew up on sicily with their grandparents. as they grew older three of the brothers became more and more unsatisfied with the quiet life in the mediterranean and one day they killed their own brother chico in a fight whereafter they fled to the land of opportunity where they began each their own criminal career. that made grandpa very upset he sent his fourth grandchild to america to track down and kill his malicious brothers and avenge the murder. first thing mario should do when he arrives is to look up his uncle vincente.